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> The seat of the throne moved to the white house, but the USA is still culturally close to the UK > Except for the religion, which seems to come from The Netherlands and Germany. This underesti…

They are living that way not out of choice but out of poverty. Those kinds of villages with the kind of pastoral life you are ruing for are those villages and regions where medical care, education, an…

For example, Paris is more north of Montreal yet never has Montreal level winters, and is usually 10-20 degrees F warmer. There is a good visualization of the effects by Utrecht University [0] [0] - …

The issue is this means in aggregate only around 3-5% of the total population needs to flip in it's opinions for CHexit to happen - which is very doable over two election cycles. A 55% win with 5…

> Swiss citizens have rejected by a 55% majority... This is still very close for comfort, and SVP will re-propose it again and again and again as it and it's predecessors have done for decades…

Meanwhile China is preparing to deploy $295 BILLION in an AI Data Center buildout [0] and is shifting from open models to commercialization [1]. Any proposal about slowing down AI that doesn't pu…

China also uses export controls - heck, look at the export controls passed against EU aerospace and defense companies [0] as well as China's rare earths embargo on the EU last year [1]. Additonal…

Not OP but parental controls have existed for over a decade in these platforms with little to no uptake. Now that the UK has had 3 major riots in the past 24 months exacerbated by foreign social media…

I don't expect it to displace NYC but it's a good shift and it's good to have additional clusters arise. For example, if you were always specialized in Energy, Houston/Dallas would…

Yep. And it's absolutely being exacerbated to further entrench divisions. Honestly, I wish the HN/YC moderation team could be explicit in showing how it has taken down certain bot rings as a…

Yep. It's a great city though I wouldn't live there due to the summers. Honestly, the reflexive hate both Texas and California get on HN is ridiculous and a great way to filter out accounts …

Additionally, Apollo (the world's second largest PE firm after Blackstone) has just selected Austin as it's second HQ [0] as it is looking to shift the bulk of it's hiring and headcount…

The EV batteries are sourced from Ampere and LG (in the EU) and the EESM from Valeo (in the EU). Sharing platforms isn't something EU manufacturers are opposed to, but they do not want to be depe…

It is, but the PRC has been pushing back against sourcing from within Europe and only intends to use CDKs to assemble EVs. This is what the EU is pushing back against. What EU states are now lobbyin…

This is why Alibaba canned the more idealistic Qwen members [0] and now has the AI group directly report to Eddie Wu [1] (the CEO of Alibaba). Commercialization - not open source - is the name of the …

People can kvetch but the advice in the article is correct. The alternative of no degree is extremely difficult to succeed with unless you have a pre-existing network. And underemployment rates cont…

They are export controlled in most cases as well. Also, the EU, Japan, SK, ASEAN, and India are not supportive of using Chinese tech after China export controlled rare earth exports last years [0]. So…

The issue is compute is constraint and export controlled, as is even knowhow in model training. Edit: Can't reply > Time to build fabs back in the states We are and did. The Intel and TSMC fab…

> Especially outside the US customers are going to be very hesitant to keep adopting LLMs from US companies. Not really. There aren't any other choices, and the PRC also heavily utilizes expor…

EVs in the US and China tend to use PMSMs, though GM, Stellantis, the DoE, and the DoD are funding an EESM startup [0] [0] - https://nironmagnetics.com/ …

They share the same OEMs, and both are following the same ex-China automotive strategy. Renault has also been thumbing China recently for undermining EU manufacturing as well [0] while China has retur…

Unlikely. EESMs are primarily manufactured by European OEMs (ZF, MAHLE, Schaffler, AEM) and their Indian JV partners (Sona Comstar, Sterling, and the India branches of the OEMs listed). Both have been…

Mentioned in another HN thread [0]: They're also used by Nissan [1], BMW [2], and Indian EVs [3]. European firms like ZF, Valeo, MAHLE, and Schaffler along with British firms like AEM have been w…

Same with Nissan [0], BMW [1], and Indian EVs [2]. European firms like ZF, Valeo, MAHLE, and Schaffler along with British firms like AEM have been working with Indian manufacturers for a couple years …

> After the Netscape IPO... The Netscape IPO happened 31 years ago. Over half of all Americans alive today were either in elementary school or not around yet. It's the equivalent of someone in…

I read the article, but the attributes which OP views as negative are just the general traits of hypercompetitive people. The only way to win is by hook or by crook - that is what you learn in hyperco…

At least in the US, most tech leaders and middle managers never did an MBA. Most are engineers who climbed the ladder into management. Edit: Can't reply > “Making money off of shareware” is no…

It's a shift in mindset and feels a bit "man yells at clouds". I think this really underestimates how jarring Jobs and his peers were to the older generation of techies who themselves w…